On: COBOL: Everywhere and Nowhere

[gdp]

No, that the reported popularity of COBOL is at odds with the anecdotal evidence.

[michael_dorfman → gdp]

I think if you started calling around to banks, hospitals, transport companies, oil companies, old-school manufacturing facilities, etc., and started inquiring about their existing codebases, you'd get a whole other set of anecdotes.

[gdp → michael_dorfman]

And that would be an interesting thing to see a blog post about too!